[El-errata] ELSA-2016-2582 Moderate: Oracle Linux 7 nettle security and bug fix update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Thu Nov 10 10:59:16 PST 2016


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-2582

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-2582.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
nettle-2.7.1-8.el7.i686.rpm
nettle-2.7.1-8.el7.x86_64.rpm
nettle-devel-2.7.1-8.el7.i686.rpm
nettle-devel-2.7.1-8.el7.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/nettle-2.7.1-8.el7.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.7.1-8]
- Use a cache-silent version of mpz_powm to prevent cache-timing
   attacks against RSA and DSA in shared VMs. (#1364897,CVE-2016-6489)

[2.7.1-5]
- Fixed SHA-3 implementation to conform to final standard (#1252936)
- Fixed CVE-2015-8803 CVE-2015-8804 CVE-2015-8805 which caused issues
   in secp256r1 and secp384r1 calculations (#1314374)





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